'Hotel Canberra after 1927' written in pencil on back
Sent to Archibald and Bertha Harding. Inscription reads "To Dear Bertha and Arch with best wishes from Olive and Austin". Couple married in Boorowa, 1926.
The photograph depicts the interstate members of the Australian Imperial Band with the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Alderman David Gilpin, seated between The Hon. Albert Bruntnell, MLA, Minister of Public Instruction, and Mr WM Partington, Conductor of the Band. As indicated on the photograph, the Band played at a Municipal Reception at the Sydney Town Hall on Saturday 3 May 1924 when 26 members of the band (which normally numbered 35) were photographed as seen here.
Inscription reads: "To Percy and May from Reg"
People depicted are most likely to be William and Bertha Wiesner with their son, Private William Clarence Wiesner.